Tablet shipments plumb new depths
Worldwide tablet shipments declined 17,4% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2023 (4Q23), totaling 36,8-million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. This is the...
Meteoric growth forecast for AI PCs, GenAI smartphones
Worldwide shipments of AI PCs and generative AI (GenAI) smartphones are projected to total 295-million units by the end of 2024, up from 29-million units in 2023, according to a new forecast from Gartner. Gartner defines AI PCs as PCs that are equipped with dedicated...
What can we expect from the financial markets in Q3?
The first two quarters of 2021 have seen a number of upsets in the technology investment space. Fred Razak, chief trading strategist at CMTrading, weighs in on financial markets following another interesting season and looks at what could happen next. Right now, it...
The rest of 2021 looks promising for the channel
The channel can look forward to market recovery over the rest of the year. This is one of the findings from a new distribution forecasting report from Context designed to help channel businesses plan more effectively for the second half of 2021 and beyond. The PC...
Top-performing companies tend to collaborate with competitors
There is a sharp divide in the digital strategies of better performing companies (Leaders) versus the laggards (Followers), with 80% of Leaders more willing to collaborate with competitors compared to Followers (23%). This is among the findings of global study titled...
New model could make African philanthropy more effective
The sustainable development of the not-for-profit sector in Africa is being challenged by an imbalance in international investment. This is the suggestion found in new research co-commissioned by Vodacom, Safaricom and Vodafone Foundation, which finds that foreign...
Ethernet switches up, routers down in Q2
The worldwide Ethernet switch market recorded revenues of $7,4-billion in the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21), an increase of 10,8% year over year. Meanwhile, worldwide enterprise and service provider (SP) router market revenues declined 0,5% year over year in 2Q21 to...
Enterprise WLAN sales continue strong growth
Growth rates remained strong in the enterprise segment of the wireless local area networking (WLAN) market in the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21) as the market increased 22,4% on a year-over-year basis to $1,7-billion, according to the International Data Corporation...
The lowdown on Covid health passports
South Africans received good new yesterday, with Minister of Health Dr Joe Phaahla announcing that, in less than a week, all vaccinated South Africans will be eligible for a digital vaccination certificate now under development. "This much-awaited announcement is...
Premium vehicles drive up demand for semiconductors
Semiconductors will account for more than 20% of the total premium vehicle bill of materials (BoM) by 2030. This is the prediction from Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who points out that represents a staggering five-times growth rate over 2019's 4% figure. This comes amid...
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New CEO for Powertech System Integrators
Powertech, a wholly owned subsidiary of the JSE-listed Altron Group, has appointed Hennie Du Plessis as the new CEO of Powertech System Integrators (PTSI) with effect from 3 March 2014. Du Plessis is registered as a professional Engineer (Pr Eng) with the Engineering...
FOXit releases Project Server Report Pack
FOXit, one of South Africa’s fastest growing and most successful providers of project and portfolio management services, has refined its offering to businesses with the rollout of its Project Server Report Packs. This solution adds immediate benefit by offering...
JT International retains Integr8
JTI has selected South Africa-based ICT managed services provider, Integr8, as its continued technology procurement and services partner of choice. This marks the extension of a long-term relationship founded upon reliable, quality outsourced technical service...
WD named Storage Vendor of the Year
Hundreds of distributors, retailers and e-tailers across the US and Europe-Middle East-Africa regions have selected WD, a Western Digital company, as the best hard drive company with which to partner during the past year. In the US, CRN’s 2014 Channel Champion Survey...
POPI is not all doom and gloom
The Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act was signed into law last year. It places strict onuses on businesses when it comes to handling personal information about their clients, staff and customers, says Doros Hadjizenonos, sales manager for Check Point South...
DSA to host wireless spectrum debate
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) will hold the world’s largest conference on wireless spectrum sharing in Accra, Ghana from 13 to 14 May 2014. This comes at a time when new laws and regulations are needed in order to release spectrum for vital radio, TV, broadband...
Manage fraud with employee verification
According to PWC’s biennial Global Economic Crime Survey (2011), economic crime continues to rise, growing by 13% since the 2009 survey. Fifty-six percent of respondents said that employees were responsible for the most serious fraud, and asset misappropriation...
Three layers of security key for business
Businesses today need to focus equally on physical, personnel and cyber security in order to mitigate risk in the face of growing criminal focus on enterprise data, says UK-based security expert Chris Phillips.All businesses should take a holistic approach to...
2014 will not be the year of VDI
The time has come to say goodbye to a much loved annual event: declaring the coming year as the “year of VDI”, says Michael Church, enterprise manager, Citrix, South Africa. There is no doubt that VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) deployments will continue to grow,...
How to choose bandwidth
Bandwidth packages come in many different forms, price ranges and sizes and choosing the one that is right for you can be a challenge, says Shane Chorley, executive head of Network and Operations. “The first question to ask before signing up for any bandwidth package...
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